I think I have a solution for our high-in-the-sky American Heroes. Let them bomb everyone in Afghanistan Taliban, Tadjiks, Pashtun, Uzbeks and other factions who might in future treacherously and thanklessly turn against their American liberators. It could financially be very beneficial to the US military-industrial complex and, as an added bonus, it would save […]

But Asmal’s drastic intervention this week in Unisa’s governance crisis has delighted academics at the troubled university David Macfarlane Nearly R200 000 in less than two years: that’s the cash Unisa council chairperson McCaps Motimele has milked from the university in contravention of Unisa policies, says the auditor general. But scarcely anyone on the controversy-ridden […]

Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s dramatic intervention this week in the alarming governance fiasco at South Africa’s largest university, Unisa, has come not a moment too soon. For more than a year the head of Unisa’s council, advocate McCaps Motimele, has been running the university like a tinpot dictator, creating factions and conflict in an […]

Fiona Macleod People who like putting their food outside as well as inside themselves are flocking in droves to the new South African outlets of international cosmetics success The Body Shop. The rate at which the body butters thick creams made with nuts, honey, mangoes, olives, soya or cocoa have been flying off the shelves […]

ANALYSIS Firoz Osman It is becoming more apparent that the war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban or the World Trade Centre. Realpolitik, the need and greed for oil and gas are, once again, the source of misery and tragedy. This time it is happening in central Asia, […]

A KwaZulu-Natal man is writing to the president asking him to visit and bring hope to Aids sufferers Jaspreet Kindra Arthur Jokweni (20) wants to take President Thabo Mbeki to rural KwaZulu-Natal where HIV/Aids is “killing the community”. He wants to show Mbeki the face of Aids in areas where people have to travel more […]

Natural herbs have no side effects and are less expensive than Western-based medication Thabo Mohlala The rapid spread of Aids, combined with the expense and difficulty in obtaining Western medicine, is forcing more people to consult traditional healers in search of a cure. But do the government and other players in the medical fraternity appreciate […]

JAMES MEEK | Friday WITH only a few weeks left before the peak of the opium poppy planting season in Afghanistan, time is running out for Western agencies to offer alternatives to farmers who are planning to harvest the drug next year. United States anti-narcotics officials spoke this week of the need to give aid […]

A MOB arrested a suspected child kidnapper Tuesday in the Nigerian capital and handed him over to the police, the national television station reported. The suspect lured a two-year-old baby with biscuits and put him in the blood-stained boot of his car before his vehicle was blocked by the mob, the report said. He was […]

Durban | Friday OPERATIONS at two of South Africa’s ports came to a virtual standstill on Thursday as thousands of workers downed tools over payment of performance bonuses and upgrade reviews. Some 4 000 members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) are participating in the strike in the east coast port […]